The Palestinian Ideology Ignores Reality

Among ideology, a fundamental belief system, and recognition of reality, there has always been a huge intellectual gap. History is full of instances when all too many people have refused to recognize the disastrous consequences of adhering to an ideology, usually based on myth, regardless of a reality that contradicts their firm beliefs. The key problem is that individuals espousing some ideological point of view may have invested so much emotional attachment to it that they not only abandon objectivity, but also are incapable of renouncing a viewpoint, a myth, or a false political religion that has been discredited or may be irrelevant. They do not want to disavow the part of themselves that has accepted falsity.
This is now true of the ideological believers in the Palestinian narrative of victimhood. Almost everyone recognizes the mistakes of "true believers" in refusing to admit the horrors of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union and...(Read Full Article)